"I love you..." she softly whispered into a dark, cold room.
A room illuminated by an alien blue light, that reflected the reckless dreams in her eyes, the love struck emotions in her mind.
Her mind is not her own as the idea of him consumes the flames in her soul, his voice occupies more than a few mumbled words as it moves through her veins, like a disease she never wants to cure.
Her body may be lying still on a bed as hard as heartbreak, but her eyes are filled with daydreams corrupted by blissful happiness and promises of a life shes always wanted. Golden streaks of life delicately threaded between ideas of love and lust, a place only he could ever take her.
Her innocence belongs to him, as they both promise a life of forever after to each other. With eyes wide open, the silence is deafening but it speaks a million words only they will ever know.
Words that will mean more to her than the very air she breathes through corrupted lungs soaked with pain and loneliness, but tonight he will set her free with everything he is.
Even though her surroundings are cold, she is comforted as he softly replies, "I love you more..." his words hanging in the air above her lips. Lips that long for his breath. She longs for a touch, a brush of skin, just a simple spark to start her heart again.
She looks at him through eyes that have cried salt and listens to him with ears that have endured hate, but in that moment, the very Earth beneath her seems to disappear and everything that is bright and lovely seeps into her skin and all she can manage is a beaming smile.
"What are you smiling about." His words are tainted with love...
"You" her words are carried away on a breath caught on a breeze.
She could stare at him for forever and never tire, but his smile is all it takes to make her muscles seize and cause her soul to illuminate. His smile is all it takes to chase away all the shadows hiding under her bed, and the demons lurking a step behind her.
Her clock says 2:45 am but her eyes can see the sunlight streaming in through his window. It's the same light that will greet her cold skin in a few more hours, and it's something that her soul delights in. A million questions swarm to mind but she settles for a simple, "How was your day?"
The only thing better than goodnight kisses transported across a world that seems so small, yet stretches for an eternity, are his cute messages that never fail to light up her face with a smile and whisk her away to thoughts of him.
She wishes she could make people understand how her young heart has finally found something it could hold onto. When she tries her words escape her delicate lips and become impish whisps that dance around the air, refusing to be tamed. How could she ever describe in words something so pure and beautiful traded by two hearts when she didn't quite understand it herself.
In the never ending night that plays host to darkness, she is more comforted by a boy a million miles away, then by her favorite teddy bear, clutched tightly against her chest.
And even though they are separated by an ocean, she can always find him a whisper away.
9200 miles.
